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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

Swami Vivekananda

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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Character Habit Hope Man Reform
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Body God Himself Identify Men Mistake
If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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Growth Help Himself Knowledge Level Men Weakness
The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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Believe Doubt Glory Greatness Past
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Easy Inspirational
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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Fear Hero Motivational
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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Responsibility Suffering
It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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Different God Religion Spiritual
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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Sky Soul Stars
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Freedom Reality
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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Knowledge Practice Shine Sun
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Greatness Necessary Patience Perseverance
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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Death Learning Men Myself
I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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Life Material Meditation Myself Power
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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Practice Reason Superstitions

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